Start the school year off right with this FREE first chapter of The Earth Science Interactive Notebook series: Intro to Earth Science. The concepts in this chapter will introduce some key vocabulary and enable students to start understanding the different systems of Earth and all the branches of science that Earth Science entails. Each chapter in the series will showcase many activities for the students (both middle and high school) to process the information given by teachers.

Identifying Rocks

Rock Cycle [More important than you think! When picking rocks for hardscapes you want to use Metamorphic rock in most cases, especially with water (so it doesn't leach anything into the water) but it is also important to know what type of rockscape your c

Plate Tectonics with Oreo Cookies

This is an awesome edible science lab that demonstrates plate boundaries by using an Oreo as one of the Earth's plates. I would like to use this as an introductory lesson when teaching plate boundaries and plate tectonics.